Property taxes are due today but I’ve paid mine already! Upon opening my statements a few weeks ago, I felt a little like Barbie…
No one likes to pay taxes and we probably all think they’re too high. But I have a real problem with mine! Let me explain…
I have more than one property… actually, more than two even. Property taxes on the home I lived in — when I lived there — in the Ville were not horribly unreasonable. Like most normal folks I thought they were high, but not out of line with the amounts I knew other people were paying. So when I contemplated the move to Seymour, I figured I would be taxed at a rate that would be painful because of where this house is located in the city, the fact that it’s all brick with an attached garage, and because it’s about 3 times the size of what I already had. But no!
The house in the Ville is nice. It is. (I miss it terribly, in fact.) However, it’s around 1200 square feet with a detached garage on an acre of ground tract. When my homestead credit got moved to the new house and I received my tax bill for the house in the ville I about keeled over! You guys, it’s Crothersville for crying out loud.
So I go online and look up five people I know who own nice homes in the Ville — similar in size and attributes as what I have here in Seymour. Every single one that I looked up had property tax bills that, on average, were $600 a year MORE than mine. These 5 friends pay a significant amount MORE to live in a house in the Ville where they STILL have to drive to Seymour (or Scottsburg) to get the majority of the stuff they need; all but one of the working people in these households STILL have to drive to go to work, and they all STILL have to drive to eat an evening meal outside their home.
What’s up with that?